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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?

Release of the UN Department of Social Affairs (UNDESA) 2023 World Social Report
LIS data was heavily used for some analysis underlying the latest UNDESA World Social Report 2023

Call for papers for the conference “Income and wealth inequality: drivers and consequences”
We invite scholars working in the field of income and wealth inequalities to contribute to the Income and wealth inequality: drivers and consequences Conference

Persistent segmentation in social policy in 21st century Latin America
This article sheds light on the varying welfare policy approaches in Latin America in the first two decades in the 21st century

Varieties of gendered inequality outcomes
This article studies gender inequality trends before and after the global financial crisis across eight high-income countries